The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.

A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.

With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.

But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.

Hope springs eternal.

We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.