I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.
Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.
No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.
Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.
Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.
He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret.
Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.
It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.
The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.
Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.
There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.
That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.
If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still.
Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.
We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.