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

Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

If you want to be a writer, then write. Write every day!

Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.

Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal; for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with respect to himself, that strength and weight which it had not before.

A country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may have agreeable topicks for conversation when they are by themselves.