The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
From Samuel Johnson
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
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