No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.

No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.