Change is not made without inconvenience.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day

Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well.

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.