The first blow is half the battle.

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.

He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.