Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little

A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.

Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.

To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and he is by no means to be accounted useless or idle, who has stored his mind with acquired knowledge, and can detail it occasionally to others who have less leisure or weaker abilities.