Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town is seldom worth much, when it has suffered the devastations of a siege.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye; that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached.

That there is something in advice very useful and salutary, seems to be equally confessed on all hands; since even those that reject it, allow for the most part that rejection to be wrong, but charge the fault upon the unskilful manner in which it is given; they admit the efficacy of the medicine, but abhor the nauseousness of the vehicle.

Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little