People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to amuse them.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

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

To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew stone, would have been unworthy of Palladio; and to have rambled in search of shells and flowers, had but ill suited with the capacity of Newton.

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

So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation.