We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.

It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.

No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.