Change is not made without inconvenience.

If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.