To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.

The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.