Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

Applause abates diligence.

No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted with bitterness, if even to his own conscience he is detected in the wrong.

Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.