Gaze not idly upon others when thou thyself art sinking. Whence is this thoughtless tranquillity, when thou and they are equally endangered?

I resolved to quit the university, where I considered myself as a gem hidden in the mine, and to mingle in the crowd of publick life.

By encouraging people to employ their whole attention on trifles, and make amusement their sole study, you will teach them how to avoid many very uneasy reflections.

To be infected with the jargon of a particular profession, and to know only the language of a single rank of mortals, is indeed despicable.

Life passes in petty transactions; there very seldom emerges any occasion that can call forth great virtue or great abilities.

I have lived to see such a change in the manners of women.

Truth is, indeed, not often welcome for its own sake; it is generally unpleasing, because contrary to our wishes and opposite to our practice.

The general resemblance of the sound to the sense is to be found in every language which admits of poetry.

To convince any man against his will is hard, but to please him against his will is above the reach of human abilities.