Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.