Might not most men be as well named boys grown old.

Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above ambition, the other below it.

If they who understand the utmost refinement of any art will enjoy the perfection of it in a manner superior to other men, will they not amply pay for that advantage in feeling more than other men the imperfection of it, which in the natural course of things must so much oftener fall in their way?

The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.

Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.

Some women destroy all your sensibility towards them by their coldness, others by their heat.

Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.