Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.

It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?

There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.