While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best.

Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them; and the difficulty in writing is to please those from whom others learn to be pleased.

Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.

He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.