There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.