He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

In proportion as our cares are employed upon the future, they are abstracted from the present, from the only time which we can call our own, and of which, if we neglect the apparent duties to make provision against visionary attacks, we shall certainly counteract our own purpose.

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.

Every man is of importance to himself.

How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.