"Every absurdity has a champion to defend it."

"The jests of the rich are ever successful."

"If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales."

"Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law."

"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."

"Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues."

"Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet."

"As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease."

"On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting."

"Honour sinks where commerce long prevails."

"Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better."

"Tenderness is a virtue."

"Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw."

"Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long."

"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."

"When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?"

"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy."

"I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population."

"Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes."

"Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same."

"Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other."

"Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook."

"A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future."

"Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse."

"Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes."

"With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive."

"Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!"

"A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond."

"They say women and music should never be dated."

"Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning."

"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall."

"Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall."

"Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves."

"Where wealth accumulates, men decay."

"I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine."

"The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy."

"There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue."