“A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation. ”

“The difference between a good artist and a bad one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal, the good one really does.”

“He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars; General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer: For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.”

“The busy bee has no time for sorrow.”

“The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow”

“Pity would be no more,If we did not make somebody poor.Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.”

“Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.”