No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.

The general remedy of those who are uneasy without knowing the cause is change of place.

The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of learning requires that they should be discovered and stigmatized, before they have the sanction of antiquity conferred upon them, and become precedents of indisputable authority.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, to buried merit raise the tardy bust.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.