A Generous And Elevated Mind

The Worst Evils Are Those That Never Arrive.

There Is No Temper More Unpropitious To Interest Than Desultory Application And Unlimited Inquiry, By Which The Desires Are Held In A Perpetual Equipoise, And The Mind Fluctuates Between Different Purposes Without Determination.

It Is Common To Overlook What Is Near By Keeping The Eye Fixed On Something Remote.

There Is ... Scarcely Any Species Of Writing Of Which We Can Tell What Is Its Essence, And What Are Its Constituents; Every New Genius Produces Some Innovation, Which, When Invented And Approved, Subverts The Rules Which The Practice Of Foregoing Authors Had Established.

In All Pointed Sentences, Some Degree Of Accuracy Must Be Sacrificed To Conciseness.