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 a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.

If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.

Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.

Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.