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.

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.

The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.