“No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.”
“Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.”
“I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.”
“Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.”
“Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.”
“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”
“There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.”
“Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.”
“Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.”
“The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.”
“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”
“Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.”
“Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.”
“Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.”
“If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?”
“Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.”
“Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.”
“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”
“The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.”
“Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.”
“Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.”
“Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.”
“He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.”
“Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.”
“Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.”
“Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.”
“Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.”
“No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.”
“He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.”
“Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.”