alas! there is no casting anchor in the stream of time!

Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.

Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.

He who fears not, is to be feared.

Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it; they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home.

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.