Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound.

As we ascend in society, like those who climb a mountain, we shall find that the line of perpetual congelation commences with the higher circles; and the nearer we approach to the grand luminary the court, the more frigidity and apathy shall we experience.

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.

Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare: but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common; for jealousy can feed on that which is bitter no less than on that which is sweet, and is sustained by pride as often as by affection.

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts.