You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.

A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the mighty heap of human calamity, were it only surveyed by the eye of general benevolence equally attentive to every misery.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.