Games are good or bad as to their nature; all may be perverted.

Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.

No one ever became great by imitation.

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

To be prejudiced is always to be weak

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.

The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity. The wits of these happy days have discovered a way to fame, which the dull caution of our laborious ancestors durst never attempt; they cut the knots of sophistry, which it was formerly the business of years to untie, solve difficulties by sudden irradiations of intelligence, and comprehend long processes of argument by immediate intuition.