The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.

God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an imagination overwhelmed, a mind distracted with anxieties, a body languishing with disease: he will labour on a barren topic till it is too late to change it; or, in the ardour of invention, diffuse his thoughts into wild exuberance, which the pressing hour of publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or reduce.

He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or change his course as new attractions prevail, and harass himself without advancing.