It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied; like a piece of metal constantly kept smooth and bright, we look on it with more pleasure than on a new vessel cankered with rust.

A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.

It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition.

I believe that everyone, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention prompts so readily that the mind is imposed upon, and mistakes its own suggestions for the composition of another.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.