“All censure of a man’s self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.”

“He who praises everybody, praises nobody.”

“I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.”

“In a man’s letters his soul lies naked.”

“In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.”

“Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”

“Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.”