No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

There may be other reasons for a man's not speaking in publick than want of resolution: he may have nothing to say.

Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.

Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.

The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.