A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

A book should be luminous not voluminous.

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.