To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.

The roads of science are narrow, so that they who travel them, must wither follow or meet one another.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.

When a man feel the reprehension of a friend seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment.

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.