Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant...
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It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.
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Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
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I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest ...
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Languages are the pedigree of nations.
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If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in the other insurmountable distresses of humanity? I...
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Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
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This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
