Applause Abates Diligence.

All Severity That Does Not Tend To Increase Good, Or Prevent Evil, Is Idle.

Every Other Author May Aspire To Praise; The Lexicographer Can Only Hope To Escape Reproach.

I Have Always Considered A Clergyman As The Father Of A Larger Family Than He Is Able To Maintain.

Unintelligible Language Is A Lantern Without A Light.

I Have Often Thought That There Has Rarely Passed A Life Of Which A Judicious And Faithful Narrative Would Not Be Useful; For Not Only Every Man Has, In The Mighty Mass Of The World, Great Numbers In The Same Condition With Himself, To Whom His Mistakes And Miscarriages, Escapes And Expedients, Would Be Of Immediate And Apparent Use; But There Is Such A Uniformity In The State Of Man, Considered Apart From Adventitious And Separable Decorations And Disguises, That There Is Scarce Any Possibility Of Good Or Ill But Is Common To Human Kind.