Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.
Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.