It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.

All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.

Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.

Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.

Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.

Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.

Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.