There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom; or that which is established because it is right, from that which is right only because it is established; that he may neither violate essential principles by a desire of novelty, nor debar himself from the attainment of beauties within his view, by a needless fear of breaking rules which no literary dictator had authority to enact.

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband?