Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.

We see no where the pernicious effects of luxury on a republic more than in that of the ancient Romans, who immediately found itself poor as soon as this vice got footing among them, though they were possessed of all the riches in the world.

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

It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is the divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.