Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture.

He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.