The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any other claim to notice than that they catch hold on present curiosity, and gratify some accidental desire, or produce some temporary conveniency.

Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.

A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.

The general remedy of those who are uneasy without knowing the cause is change of place.

Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.

Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.

To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.