The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.

The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.

When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for few are formed with abilities to discover new possibilities of excellence, and to distinguish themselves by means never tried before.

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.