I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good till they are rotten.

Pendantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner d treating it.

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.

No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.