The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

The more a man writes, the more he can write.

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.

Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.

The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.

Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.

It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to s different species.