I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

Our expenses are all for conformity.

The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world.

As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.