No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, - attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.

Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.

Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.

Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.

Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.