There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

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

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

See in what peace a Christian can die.