Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.

Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

A man of sense, though born without wit, often lives to have wit. His memory treasures up ideas and reflections; he compares themwith new occurrences, and strikes out new lights from the collision. The consequence is sometimes bons mots, and sometimes apothegms.

Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.

The prosecution of [Warren] Hastings, though he should escape at last, must have good effect. It will alarm the servants of the Company in India, that they may not always plunder with impunity, but that there may be a retrospect; and it will show them that even bribes of diamonds to the Crown may not secure them from prosecution.

[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste.