General Notions Are Generally Wrong.

True Knowledge Consists In Knowing Things, Not Words.

We Are Apt To Consider Shakespeare Only As A Poet; But He Was Certainly One Of The Greatest Moral Philosophers That Ever Lived.

My Dear Smollett ... Disgraces His Talent By Writing Those Stupid Romances Called History.

The Familiarities Of The Gaming-table Contribute Very Much To The Decay Of Politeness ... The Pouts And Quarrels That Naturally Arise From Disputes Must Put An End To All Complaisance, Or Even Good Will Towards One Another.

Let This Great Maxim Be My Virtue's Guide,- In Part She Is To Blame That Has Been Tried: He Comes Too Near That Comes To Be Denied.