All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.
If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of of being in danger.