Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

The future is purchased by the present.

Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.

To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the first summons; but such happiness, the greatest genius does not always obtain; and common writers know it only to such a degree, as to credit its possibility. Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.

An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.