People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.

Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.

No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.

The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers.

To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be hoped. The prizes which some have received for their multiplicity of languages may be sufficient to excite industry, but can hardly generate confidence.