I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.

Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.

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.

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.