The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.
Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditations and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the catalogue.
I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.