The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.

Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life.

A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal.

Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.

It is certain that success naturally confirms in us a favourable opinion of our own abilities. Scarce any man is willing to allot to accident, friendship, and a thousand causes, which concur in every event without human contrivance or interposition, the part which they may justly claim in his advancement. We rate ourselves by our fortune rather than our virtues, and exorbitant claims are quickly produced by imaginary merit.