There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.