We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.

We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it.

No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have happened by chance; as where the same ideas are conjoined without any natural series or necessary coherence, or where not only the thought but the words are copied.

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.

The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.

Never mind the use--do it!

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.