The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.