Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.

A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.

Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.

People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to amuse them.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given no man ability to do much, that something might be left for every man to do. The business of life is carried on by a general co-operation; in which the part of any single man can be no more distinguished, than the effect of a particular drop when the meadows are floated by a summer shower: yet every drop increases the inundation, and every hand adds to the happiness or misery of mankind.