Hope, like the gleaming taper

The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.

True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.

As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.

Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land.

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.