Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions

Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

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