There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.

Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.

I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.

It is, however, not necessary, that a man should forbear to write, till he has discovered some truth unknown before; he may be sufficiently useful, by only diversifying the surface of knowledge, and luring the mind by a new appearance to a second view of those beauties which it had passed over inattentively before.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom