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

A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.

Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the harmony of nature; and by that Providence which often places antidotes in the neighborhood of poisons, vice was checked by misery, lest it should swell to universal and unlimited dominion.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

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

Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.