"Dandyism is a variety of genius."

"The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors."

"True friendship is self-love at second hand."

"None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so."

"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be."

"Good-nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all the virtues: it is nine times out of ten mere indolence of disposition."

"A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being."

"We had as lief not be as not be ourselves."

"A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it."

"The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard."

"One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect."

"Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits."

"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind."

"Prejudice is the child of ignorance."

"One truth discovered one pang of regret at not being able to express it is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world."

"Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use."

"We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects."

"There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it."

"If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory."

"To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it."

"The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about."

"Reflection makes men cowards."

"Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy."

"The incentive to ambition is the love of power."

"Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else."

"In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates."

"Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out of malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavourable impression it is not necessary that certain things should be true but that they have been said."

"It is well there is no one without fault for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species."

"I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about."

"Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming."

"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."

"The perceiving our own weaknesses enables us to give others excellent advice, but it does not teach us to to reform ourselves."

"We can scarcely hate anyone that we know."

"An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may."

"Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse."

"I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."

"Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted."

"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."

"The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases."

"People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel."

"There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us."

"If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators."

"Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality."

"Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features."

"No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history."

"Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room."

"The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings."

"Love turns, with little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal."

"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

"The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings."