Fear is a feeling that is stronger than love.

Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every day guilty of them himself; and as cautious of committing a fault as if he never forgave one.

Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.

There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit