To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar

No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.

What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.

A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.