Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.

Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything.

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

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

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.