The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.

A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

Thus, then, stands the case. It is good, that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil; but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for the purpose of securing the good.

Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources.

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.