A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time.

Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition, as a state of warfare; and his probation in it, precisely that of any other man militant upon earth,--both depending alike, not half so much upon the degrees of his WIT--as his RESISTANCE.

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

If time, like money, could be laid by while one was not using it, there might be some excuse for the idleness of half of the world, but yet not a full one. For even this would be such an economy as the living on a principal sum, without making it purchase interest.