Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.

A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.

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.

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.

We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.