All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.

Games are good or bad as to their nature; all may be perverted.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good till they are rotten.