So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him,-pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the king's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him -pray, sir, what have either you or I to do with it?

But desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love at first sight; it is ye who open the door and let the stranger in.

The best friends in the world may differ sometimes.

There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

The history of a soldiers wound beguiles the pain of it.