Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.

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

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man's look is the work of years, it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.