Whether dark presages of the night proceed from any latent power of the soul during her abstraction, or from any operation of subordinate spirits, has been a dispute.

Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.

There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude.

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

A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors.

With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhaustible sources of perfection. We know not yet what we shall be, nor will it ever enter into the heart to conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for it.

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.