Nature is stronger than education.

The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.

Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.