All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives of particular persons, and therefore no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography.

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

Wretched un-idea'd girls.

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.