In all the silent manliness of grief.

The first blow is half the battle.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

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.

What is genius or courage without a heart?

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,- A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.