Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.

So willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten; he that acknowledges the obligations of morality and pleases his vanity with enforcing them to others, concludes himself zealous in the cause of virtue.

I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.

If you want to be a writer, then write. Write every day!

No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.