Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

What is genius or courage without a heart?

Measures, not men, have always been my mark.

The first blow is half the battle.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to merit, and part to a happy concurrence of circumstances in its favor. Had Caesar or Cromwell exchanged countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman.