Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.

When we know exactly all a man's views and how he comes to speak and act so and so, we lose any respect for him, though we may love and admire him.

Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it' 'What, Sir! will sense make the head ache?' 'Yes, Sir, (with a smile,) when it is not used to it.

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may be one of three things either what is called Plagiarism, or Imitation, or Coincidence.

Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials.