Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence.

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.