A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.

Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

I advised Chambers, and would advise every young man beginning to compose, to do it as fast as he can, to get a habit of having his mind to start promptly; it is so much more difficult to improve in speed than in accuracy.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some themselves; the mutability of mankind will always furnish writers with new images, and the luxuriance of fancy may always embellish them with new decorations.