Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain which the reader throws away. He only is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day.

He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.

Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew stone, would have been unworthy of Palladio; and to have rambled in search of shells and flowers, had but ill suited with the capacity of Newton.

Nothing can be truly great which is not right.