Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.

Truth has no gradations; nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.

Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in dependence on the weather and the wind, for the only blessings which nature has put into our power, tranquillity and benevolence. To look up to the sky for the nutriment of our bodies, is the condition of nature; to call upon the sun for peace and gaiety, or deprecate the clouds lest sorrow should overwhelm us, is the cowardice of idleness, and the idolatry of folly.