To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be hoped. The prizes which some have received for their multiplicity of languages may be sufficient to excite industry, but can hardly generate confidence.

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.

Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible

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

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.

Sir, there is no end of negative criticism.