Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.
Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.
All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.
The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements-success.