Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.

In his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve.

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures