The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.

An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.

[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste.

In science, mistakes always precede the truth

I can forgive injuries, but never benefits.

Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line.