Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.