All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.