A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.