Faults and defects every work of man must have.

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.

The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.

When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.