"Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others."

"Se couper le nez pour faire dépit à son visage."

"We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their …"

"That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he …"

"A volume, therefore, that contains more words than ideas, like a tree that has more foliage than fruit, may suit thos…"

"With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good book…"

"It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge. Mal-information is more hopeless than no…"

"That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time."

"From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the prep…"

"Style is indeed the valet of genius, and an able one too; but as the true gentleman will appear, even in rags, so tru…"