If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.

He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an imagination overwhelmed, a mind distracted with anxieties, a body languishing with disease: he will labour on a barren topic till it is too late to change it; or, in the ardour of invention, diffuse his thoughts into wild exuberance, which the pressing hour of publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or reduce.

Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.

Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.

What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.

Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.