The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

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

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

In sovereignty there are no gradations.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.