Virtue is too often merely local.

Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.

For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed their existence; it requires what it cannot hope, that the laws of the universe should be repealed; that the dead should return, or the past should be recalled.

Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the new generations have all to learn. There may possibly be books without a polished language, but there can be no polished language without books.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

By writing, you learn to write.