Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.

Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.

They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions fortuitous, destroy the value of their friendship, obstruct the efficacy of their virtues, and set them below the meanest of those who persist in their resolutions, execute what they design, and perform what they have promised.

The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.