"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?"

"Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side."

"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

"To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment."

"I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person."

"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them."

"What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence."

"There鈥檚 nothing like seeing a photo of yourself in happier days speeding toward your face in anger."

"Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been."

"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."

"Never in the history of mankind have so many owed so much to so few."

"Character is who you are when no one is looking."