Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.
Applause abates diligence.
The majority of a society is the true definition of the public.
A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.
We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures