Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.

In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.

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.

Forgetfulness is necessary to remembrance. Ideas are retained by renovation of that impression which time is always wearing away,and which new images are striving to obliterate. If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur, and every recurrence would reinstate them in their former place.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.