Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.

Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.

Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.

Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.

Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.

Whatever you have spend less.

No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have happened by chance; as where the same ideas are conjoined without any natural series or necessary coherence, or where not only the thought but the words are copied.