Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.

Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.

Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.

True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

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