Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand.

There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.

The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.

A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit.