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

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

It is not possible to be regarded with tenderness, except by a few. That merit which gives greatness and renown diffuses its influence to a wide compass, but acts weakly on every single breast; it is placed at a distance from common spectators, and shines like one of the remote stars, of which the light reaches us, but not the heat.

Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life.

Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.