All intellectual improvement arises from leisure

Inconsistencies cannot both be right; but, imputed to man, they may both be true

No man heartily hates him at who he can laugh

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things they denote

Language is the dress of thought.

Every error in human conduct must arise from ignorance in ourselves, either perpetual or temporary; and happen either because we do not know what is best and fittest, or because our knowledge is at the time of action not present to the mind

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance