Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.

When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.

Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.

One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

I have often reflected within myself on this unaccountable humor in womankind of being smitten with everything that is showy and superficial, and on the numberless evils that befall the sex from this light fantastical disposition.