What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it.

There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which, we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect, the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.

The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.

The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.

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

What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to as the lights of the earth are no better than themselves.

Dandyism is a variety of genius.