Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.

No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting with expectation, and hushed with attention, easily terrifies himself with the dread of disappointing them, and strains his imagination in pursuit of something that may vindicate the veracity of fame, and show that his reputation was not gained by chance.

Norway, too, has noble prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England!

Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.

The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative.