Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Every man is of importance to himself.

Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.

Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have often no other task than to lay two books before them, out of which they compile a third, without any new material of their own, and with very little application of judgment to those which former authors have supplied.

Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images; and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to other things.