The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.

A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.

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

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of any other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find those distinctions which characterize a people.

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.