We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?

It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy.

The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.