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

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

“I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.”

“It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them.”

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

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

“The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it; for, however absurd it may be thought to boast an honour by an act which shows that it was conferred without merit, yet most men seem rather inclined to confess the want of virtue than of importance.”