There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.

We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always will be greatest, when our endeavours are exerted in consequence of our duty.

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.

Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.

Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.