Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
The blushing beauties of a modest maid.
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store