Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.
Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?
You can never be wise unless you love reading.
No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.