A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.

There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

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.

Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.