Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, to buried merit raise the tardy bust.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.

It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.