The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is nothing with respect either to honour or advantage, for the world cannot reward those qualities which are concealed from it; with respect to others it is nothing, because it affords no help to ignorance or errour.

If you want to be a writer, then write. Write every day!

Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.