Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.

The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.

There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.

The ungrown glories of his beamy hair.

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.