It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.

To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s

I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.

Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the new generations have all to learn. There may possibly be books without a polished language, but there can be no polished language without books.