True enjoyments also keep people from vice.

There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

Employment and hardships prevent melancholy.

When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.

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