Was ever poet so trusted before?

Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.

He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.

No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting with expectation, and hushed with attention, easily terrifies himself with the dread of disappointing them, and strains his imagination in pursuit of something that may vindicate the veracity of fame, and show that his reputation was not gained by chance.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have often no other task than to lay two books before them, out of which they compile a third, without any new material of their own, and with very little application of judgment to those which former authors have supplied.