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 book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.

So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.

The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.