No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted with bitterness, if even to his own conscience he is detected in the wrong.

In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant.

An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.

Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.

Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.

The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance.