Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

The majority of a society is the true definition of the public.

You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects.

I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote.