It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.

As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised as plagiarism. The adoption of a noble sentiment, or the insertion of a borrowed ornament, may sometimes display so much judgment as will almost compensate for invention; and an inferior genius may, without any imputation of servility, pursue the paths of the ancients, provided he declines to tread in their footsteps.

I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.