There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude.

There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.

The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing.