Knock the 't' off the 'can't.'

Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.

The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances.

Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.

I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit to any rule, by which they may be exempted from the tyranny of caprice and of chance. They are glad to supply by external authority their own want of constancy and resolution, and court the government of others, when long experience has convinced them of their own inability to govern themselves.