Allegories drawn to great length will always break.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and the mind fluctuates between different purposes without determination.

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.

Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion.

Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.