It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.

Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

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.

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.