He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.

No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, to buried merit raise the tardy bust.

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.

We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.

Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.