Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense, is the spirit of distributive order.

Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.

The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.

If Painting be Poetry's sister, she can only be a sister Anne, who will see nothing but a flock of sheep, while the other bodies forth a troop of dragoons with drawn sabres and white-plumed helmets.

I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.

The difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little else than that the former have been better sheltered from temptation.

In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.