A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

Hope springs eternal.

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

Never find fault with the absent.

Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.