A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.

Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.

He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning, they must be content to follow opinions, which they are not able to examine; and, even in that which they claim as peculiarly their own, can seldom add more than some small particle of knowledge, to the hereditary stock devolved to them from ancient times, the collective labour of a thousand intellects.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.