Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.

Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.

Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.

There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.

A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city.