There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man would be rich, powerful, and famous; yet fame, power, and riches, are only the names of relative conditions, which imply the obscurity, dependence, and poverty of greater numbers.

To do something is in every man's power.

Wretched un-idea'd girls.