Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the first summons; but such happiness, the greatest genius does not always obtain; and common writers know it only to such a degree, as to credit its possibility. Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.

You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.