I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.

Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.

Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.

I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good till they are rotten.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

To be prejudiced is always to be weak

He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an imagination overwhelmed, a mind distracted with anxieties, a body languishing with disease: he will labour on a barren topic till it is too late to change it; or, in the ardour of invention, diffuse his thoughts into wild exuberance, which the pressing hour of publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or reduce.