If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.

Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.