A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

Troops of heroes undistinguished die.

There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.

Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor.

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

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

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.