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

No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.

I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.

The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.

The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any other claim to notice than that they catch hold on present curiosity, and gratify some accidental desire, or produce some temporary conveniency.

Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have often no other task than to lay two books before them, out of which they compile a third, without any new material of their own, and with very little application of judgment to those which former authors have supplied.

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.