We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.