Those who attempt to level never equalize

Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.

Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.