Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years?

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.