I believe that everyone, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention prompts so readily that the mind is imposed upon, and mistakes its own suggestions for the composition of another.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

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

I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.

Waning moons their settled periods keep, to swell the billows and ferment the deep.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.