Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present |
Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct |
Keep always in your mind, that, with due submission to Providence, a man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself |
Keeping accounts, Sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today, because you have written down what it cost yesterday. |
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. |
Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself |
Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. |
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. |
Knowledge of the subject is to the poet what durable materials are to the architect |
Knowledge was divided among the Scots, like bread in a besieged town, to every man a mouthful, to no man a bellyful |
Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man. |
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things they denote |
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas. |
Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy, and th |
Language is the dress of thought. |