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

“There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it.”

“I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.”

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

“The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it; for, however absurd it may be thought to boast an honour by an act which shows that it was conferred without merit, yet most men seem rather inclined to confess the want of virtue than of importance.”

“As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. ”

“Such, said Nekayah, is the state of life, none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish it to change again. The world is not yet exhausted. Let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.”