To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and he is by no means to be accounted useless or idle, who has stored his mind with acquired knowledge, and can detail it occasionally to others who have less leisure or weaker abilities.

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.

He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.

Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.