Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.

It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason than the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in

Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.