No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.

Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth by falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages. A peace will equally leave the warrior and the relater of wars destitute of employment; and I know not whether more is to be dreaded from streets filled with soldiers accustomed to plunder, or from garrets filled with scribblers accustomed to lie.

Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see.

How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is the thirst of the soul; it inflames and torments us, and makes us taste every thing with joy, however otherwise insipid, by which it may be quenched.

I respect Millar, sir: he has raised the price of literature.