Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.

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

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

I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men; all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.

Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.

When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our curiosity.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.