Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigor must allow some of it to pass with trifles.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow.

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.

Every man is of importance to himself.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.