A fallible being will fail somewhere.

Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions fortuitous, destroy the value of their friendship, obstruct the efficacy of their virtues, and set them below the meanest of those who persist in their resolutions, execute what they design, and perform what they have promised.

A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.

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.