Unconstraint is the grace of conversation.

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.

Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.

In this work are exhibited, in a very high degree, the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

In writing, as in life, faults are endured without disgust when they are associated with transcendent merit, and may be sometimes recommended to weak judgments by the lustre which they obtain from their union with excellence; but it is the business of those who presume to superintend the taste or morals of mankind to separate delusive combinations, and distinguish that which may be praised from that which can only be excused.

The future is bought with the present.