Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.
To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned.
The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.
The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it.