The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.

The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.

The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised.

Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning, they must be content to follow opinions, which they are not able to examine; and, even in that which they claim as peculiarly their own, can seldom add more than some small particle of knowledge, to the hereditary stock devolved to them from ancient times, the collective labour of a thousand intellects.