Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.

Languages are the pedigree of nations.

It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.

The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of teasing other animals, because, for the most part, he comes voluntarily to the stake, furnished, as he imagines, by the patron powers of literature, with resistless weapons, and impenetrable armour, with the mail of the boar of Erymanth, and the paws of the lion of Nemea.

Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.

There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.

The dangers gather as the treasures rise.