Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom, with power, because I have been followed with one cry of abuse ever since for not being a Government tool?

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.

There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.