Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.

Sir, there is no end of negative criticism.

Inquiries into the heart are not for man.

It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.

The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.