If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.

I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.

Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see.

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

Nothing can be truly great which is not right.