Philosophy is a goddess, whose head indeed is in heaven, but whose feet are upon earth; she attempts more than she accomplishes, and promises more than she performs.

Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.

Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.

Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.