Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner.

No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.

Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.

The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of honest ambition, by raising an opinion that honour may be gained without the toil of merit.