Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection, thoroughly qualified him to touch the weak, superstitious part of his readers' imagination, and made him capable of succeeding where he had nothing to support him besides the strength of his own genius.

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other injures indifferently both friends and foes.

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

All of heaven we have below.