Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!

The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.

As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.

Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.

It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.

All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.