Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.

You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.

Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness.

None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.

The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence.