The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.