The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed

Pendantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner d treating it.

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.