The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, were exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and virtue.

Truth allows no choice.

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Games are good or bad as to their nature; all may be perverted.

Was ever poet so trusted before?

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain.