It Is In Refinement And

Curiosity, Like All Other Desires, Produces Pain As Well As Pleasure.

To Have The Management Of The Mind Is A Great Art, And It May Be Attained In A Considerable Degree By Experience And Habitual Exercise.

All Censure Of A Man's Self Is Oblique Praise. It Is In Order To Show How Much He Can Spare.

No Evil Is Insupportable But That Which Is Accompanied With Consciousness Of Wrong.

It Ought To Be The First Endeavour Of A Writer To Distinguish Nature From Custom; Or That Which Is Established Because It Is Right, From That Which Is Right Only Because It Is Established; That He May Neither Violate Essential Principles By A Desire Of Novelty, Nor Debar Himself From The Attainment Of Beauties Within His View, By A Needless Fear Of Breaking Rules Which No Literary Dictator Had Authority To Enact.