Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.

The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture.

Applause abates diligence.

Men hate more steadily than they love.

The resolution of the combat is seldom equal to the vehemence of the charge.

We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.

I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.