Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.
Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.
To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.
There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.
Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration.