Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.

Charles Fox said that restorations were the most bloody of all revolutions; and he might have added that reformations are the best mode of preventing the necessity of either.

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.