Troops of heroes undistinguished die.

It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works; they have eyes only for spots and blemishes.

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.

It must be so, Plato, thou reason'st well!

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

The care of our national commerce redounds more to the riches and prosperity of the public than any other act of government.

The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party beloved kind with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing emotions of the soul, rise in the pursuit.