The first is the law, the last prerogative.

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.

It's a hard world, neighbors, if a man's oath must be his master.

Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.

Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there.

The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe.