A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.