Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!