The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

The synonyme of usury is ruin.

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.

Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

Critics ought never to be consulted, but while errors may yet be rectified or insipidity suppressed. But when the book has once been dismissed into the world, and can be no more retouched, I know not whether a very different conduct should not be prescribed, and whether firmness and spirit may not sometimes be of use to overpower arrogance and repel brutality.