We must take our friends as they are.
James Boswell

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
James Boswell

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
James Boswell

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
James Boswell

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
James Boswell

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.
James Boswell

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
James Boswell