All industry must be excited by hope.
That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
There may be other reasons for a man's not speaking in publick than want of resolution: he may have nothing to say.
His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect; compared with which reproach, hatred, and opposition are names of happiness; yet this worst, this meanest fate, every one who dares to write has reason to fear.