A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of of being in danger.

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.

The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends its effects wider, as a pestilence that taints the air is more destructive than poison infused in a draught, but because it is committed with cool deliberation.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.