People that have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Heroes are a mischievous race.

Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service.

It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

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

A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body.