Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them

Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.