The ocean is an object of no small terror.

Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. This cannot be owing to the stars themselves, separately considered. The number is certainly the cause. The apparent disorder augments the grandeur, for the appearance of care is highly contrary to our ideas of magnificence. Besides, the stars lie in such apparent confusion, as makes it impossible on ordinary occasions to reckon them. This gives them the advantage of a sort of infinity.

The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.