There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.

Heroes are a mischievous race.

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,--to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us?

Not that the moderns are born with more wit than their predecessors, but, finding the world better furnished at their coming into it, they have more leisure for new thoughts, more light to direct them, and more hints to work upon.

Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment.

He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together.