Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.

If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word; I therefore extracted from philosophers principles of science; from historians remarkable facts; from chymists complete processes; from divines striking exhortations; and from poets beautiful descriptions.

It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.