No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.

Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today because you have written down what it cost yesterday.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Too much nicety of detail disgusts the greatest part of readers, and to throw a multitude of particulars under general heads, and lay down rules of extensive comprehension, is to common understandings of little use.

None are happy but by anticipation of change.

Poetry cannot be translation