A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

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

Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.

The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.

Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.

The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

The post of honour is a private station.