Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest.

It is, however, not necessary, that a man should forbear to write, till he has discovered some truth unknown before; he may be sufficiently useful, by only diversifying the surface of knowledge, and luring the mind by a new appearance to a second view of those beauties which it had passed over inattentively before.

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.

To build is to be robbed.

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.