Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.

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

I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.

It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

I never knew any man cured of inattention.

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.