No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.

An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.