I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.

Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.

Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest.