Wine displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.

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

A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.

The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.