Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference; it argues presence of mind rather than enlargement of ideas.

Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.

The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.