Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.

Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in any party, resign the use of their own eyes and ears, and resolve to believe nothing that does not favor those whom they profess to follow.

Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.

It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them.

He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.

Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.