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

When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour in improving themselves, they set a proportionate value on their own thoughts, and wish to enforce them by efficacious expressions; speech becomes embodied and permanent; different modes and phrases are compared, and the best obtains an establishment. By degrees one age improves upon another.

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.

Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.

A fallible being will fail somewhere.

The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.