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

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.

A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

It is, however, not necessary, that a man should forbear to write, till he has discovered some truth unknown before; he may be sufficiently useful, by only diversifying the surface of knowledge, and luring the mind by a new appearance to a second view of those beauties which it had passed over inattentively before.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.