The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

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

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

No one ever became great by imitation.

It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom; or that which is established because it is right, from that which is right only because it is established; that he may neither violate essential principles by a desire of novelty, nor debar himself from the attainment of beauties within his view, by a needless fear of breaking rules which no literary dictator had authority to enact.