One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.

For life affords no higher pleasure, than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. He that labours in any great or laudable undertaking, has his fatigues first supported by hope, and afterwards rewarded by joy... To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention of mankind to any part of learning which time has left behind it, may be truly said to advance the literatures of his own age. As the manners of nations vary, new topicks of persuasion become necessary, and new combinations of imagery are produced; and he that can accommodate himself to the reigning taste, may always have readers who perhaps would not have looked upon better performances.

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.

You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.