A Man Who Is Good Enough To

To Read, Write, And Converse In Due Proportions, Is, Therefore, The Business Of A Man Of Letters.

In This Work Are Exhibited, In A Very High Degree, The Two Most Engaging Powers Of An Author. New Things Are Made Familiar, And Familiar Things Are Made New.

Every Reader Should Remember The Diffidence Of Socrates, And Repair By His Candour The Injuries Of Time: He Should Impute The Seeming Defects Of His Author To Some Chasm Of Intelligence, And Suppose That The Sense Which Is Now Weak Was Once Forcible

Kindness Is In Our Power, Even When Fondness Is Not.

Few Things Are So Liberally Bestowed, Or Squandered With So Little Effect, As Good Advice.