The future is bought with the present.
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.
Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.
Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.