Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.

The joy of life is variety.

Virtue is too often merely local.

There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.

There is ... scarcely any species of writing of which we can tell what is its essence, and what are its constituents; every new genius produces some innovation, which, when invented and approved, subverts the rules which the practice of foregoing authors had established.

Suspicion is very often a useless pain.

No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have happened by chance; as where the same ideas are conjoined without any natural series or necessary coherence, or where not only the thought but the words are copied.