Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.

But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in proportion to the pleasure of possession, will be for some time our sorrow for the loss.

The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.

There is always something a woman will prefer to the truth.

There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame.