Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning, they must be content to follow opinions, which they are not able to examine; and, even in that which they claim as peculiarly their own, can seldom add more than some small particle of knowledge, to the hereditary stock devolved to them from ancient times, the collective labour of a thousand intellects.

The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone.

Allegories drawn to great length will always break.

It is generally allowed, that no man ever found the happiness of possession proportionate to that expectation which incited his desire, and invigorated his pursuit; nor has any man found the evils of life so formidable in reality, as they were described to him by his own imagination; every species of distress brings with it some peculiar supports, some unforeseen means of resisting, or powers of enduring.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time.

This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.