History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.
There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.
The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.
There is even the dignity of vice.
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
The world is governed by love,--self-love.