The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.

Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.

Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished, and are unable to finish them, having prescribed to themselves such a degree of exactness as human diligence can scarcely ontain.

Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.

Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.

I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.

In a Man's Letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirrour of his breast.