Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct of a complicated scheme.

The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture.

Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits; the other recreates and revives them.

Never mind the use--do it!

Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.