Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.
In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.