If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.

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

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.

Lord Bacon has compared those who move in higher spheres to those heavenly bodies in the firmament, which have much admiration, but little rest. And it is not necessary to invest a wise man with power to convince him that it is a garment bedizened with gold, which dazzles the beholder by its splendor, but oppresses the wearer by its weight.