Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

There is a great amity between designing and art.

Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.

There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.

He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.

We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are.