The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.
An Englishman fears contempt more than death.
The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind.
The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.