What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s

Men become friends by a community of pleasures.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.

There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.