Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.

The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.