Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls.

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.

Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.