There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears

Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.

No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite to the great and mean, to the celebrated and obscure; the art of moderating the desires, of repressing the appetites; and of conciliating or retaining the favour of mankind.

In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man; they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry.