Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

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.

When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.

I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself--as the hangman is generally a worse malefactor than the criminal that suffers by his hand.

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up and devoured those of the Egyptians.

It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belongto his Neighbour.