Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.

To build is to be robbed.

Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.

Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.

Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning, they must be content to follow opinions, which they are not able to examine; and, even in that which they claim as peculiarly their own, can seldom add more than some small particle of knowledge, to the hereditary stock devolved to them from ancient times, the collective labour of a thousand intellects.

Judgment is forced upon us by experience