“There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.”

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”

“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings”

“Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own great merit with steady consciousness, and waiting, without impatience, the vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation.”

“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”

“I found our speech copious without order, and energetic without rules”

“Happiness," said he, "must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.”