A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.

Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.

Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

He that never thinks can never be wise.

There is ... scarcely any species of writing of which we can tell what is its essence, and what are its constituents; every new genius produces some innovation, which, when invented and approved, subverts the rules which the practice of foregoing authors had established.