We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.

We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.

The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.