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.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

The greatest miracle that the Almighty could perform would be to make a bad man happy, even in heaven; he must unparadise that blessed place to accomplish it. In its primary signification, all vice--that is, all excess--brings its own punishment even here.

Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator.

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.