He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of learning requires that they should be discovered and stigmatized, before they have the sanction of antiquity conferred upon them, and become precedents of indisputable authority.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his enlargement, than to do, with greater cunning, what he did before with less.

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...

Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.