The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

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.

Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie.

You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on . . .

Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.

Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.