Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applauses which he cannot keep so that scarcely can two persons meet, but one is offended or diverted by the ostentation of the other

Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded

For we who live to please must please to live

They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere

Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands

That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labor, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will be allowed by those who wish to elevate the character of a scholar; since they cannot but know that every human ac

Nothing has more retarded the advancement of learning than the disposition of vulgar minds to ridicule and vilify what they cannot comprehend

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditations and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the c