It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.