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.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.