The more you do, the more you can do.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

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

Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.

Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.

A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.