A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.

The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection.

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right.

Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.