The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some themselves; the mutability of mankind will always furnish writers with new images, and the luxuriance of fancy may always embellish them with new decorations.

One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

He that writes may be considered as a kind of general challenger, whom every one has a right to attack; since he quits the common rank of life, steps forward beyond the lists, and offers his merit to the public judgement. To commence author is to claim praise, and no man can justly aspire to honour, but at the hazard of disgrace.

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.