Let freedom never perish in your hands.

Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works; they have eyes only for spots and blemishes.

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.

The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.

The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.

The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.