He endearing elegance of female friendship.

..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.

No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in the country. For instance, if he is to shut himself up for a year to study science, it is better to look out to the fields, than to an opposite wall. Then, if a man walks out in the country, there is nobody to keep him from walking in again: but if a man walks out in London, he is not sure when he will walk in again. A great city is, to be sure, the school for studying life.

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar

Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.