Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

It is certain that success naturally confirms in us a favourable opinion of our own abilities. Scarce any man is willing to allot to accident, friendship, and a thousand causes, which concur in every event without human contrivance or interposition, the part which they may justly claim in his advancement. We rate ourselves by our fortune rather than our virtues, and exorbitant claims are quickly produced by imaginary merit.

The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.

All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In the same manner, all power, of whatever sort, is of itself desirable. A man would not submit to learn to hem a ruffle, of his wife, or his wife's maid; but if a mere wish could attain it, he would rather wish to be able to hem a ruffle.

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well.