Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.

Were I to be angry at men being fools, I could here find ample room for declamation; but, alas! I have been a fool myself; and why should I be angry with them for being something so natural to every child of humanity?

As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.

The sports of children satisfy the child.

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest