We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.

As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised as plagiarism. The adoption of a noble sentiment, or the insertion of a borrowed ornament, may sometimes display so much judgment as will almost compensate for invention; and an inferior genius may, without any imputation of servility, pursue the paths of the ancients, provided he declines to tread in their footsteps.

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.

The process is the reality.

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

Commerce however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one of the daughters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled.