That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.

Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

He that can please nobody is not so much to be pitied as he that nobody can please.

With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books are as scarce as good companions...