Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.

Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.

Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their wings as regularly as they call for their boots.

We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

there is no reasoning with imagination.