When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.

He endearing elegance of female friendship.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture.

He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.