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

No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.

If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.

It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.

Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.

Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.