I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men; all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.

Silence gives consent.

Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.

Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!

It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors.