Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.

No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have happened by chance; as where the same ideas are conjoined without any natural series or necessary coherence, or where not only the thought but the words are copied.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

Misery and shame are nearly allied.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.