It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain.

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.

Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigor must allow some of it to pass with trifles.

Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate.

Sir, there is no end of negative criticism.