A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.

I respect Millar, sir: he has raised the price of literature.

When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for few are formed with abilities to discover new possibilities of excellence, and to distinguish themselves by means never tried before.

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.