Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

Enthusiasm is the breath of genius.

Be thine own privy counsellor.

There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.