Who rant by note, and through the gamut rage; in songs and airs express their martial fire; combat in trills, and in a fugue expire.

Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and poverty, which seemed very ponderous, they were not able to stir the opposite balance.

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

A virtuous mind in a fair body is indeed a fine picture in a good light, and therefore it is no wonder that it makes the beautiful sex all over charms.

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

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.