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

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.

The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.