I have found men more kind than I expected and less just.
An old friend never can be found and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.
Shame arises from the fear of man conscience from the fear of God.
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
In a man's letters his soul lies naked.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Clear your mind of "can't."
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
What cannot be repaired is not to be regretted.
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.
All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.
I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth and that things are the sons of heaven.
Claret is the liquor for boys port for men but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
When two Englishmen meet their first talk is of the weather.
Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate and may be offensive .
A man Sir should keep his friendship in constant repair.