I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an individual weight of calumny will be super-added.

Forgetfulness is necessary to remembrance. Ideas are retained by renovation of that impression which time is always wearing away,and which new images are striving to obliterate. If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur, and every recurrence would reinstate them in their former place.