Employment and hardships prevent melancholy.

What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.

He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.