To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate.

No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness.

The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some themselves; the mutability of mankind will always furnish writers with new images, and the luxuriance of fancy may always embellish them with new decorations.

If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.