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

Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.

It is our first duty to serve society.

What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.

The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some themselves; the mutability of mankind will always furnish writers with new images, and the luxuriance of fancy may always embellish them with new decorations.

There is no idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps him in perpetual agitation, and hurries him rapidly from place to place.