Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.

A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.

We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established, and it is understood.

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.

Most men know what they hate, few what they love.

There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read it. Literature has now become a game; in which the Booksellers are the Kings; The Critics the Knaves; the Public, the Pack; and the poor Author, the mere table, or the Thing played upon.