He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

Moderation in all things, especially moderation.

The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.

We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath ever moment....One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zsig zag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficent distance and it straightens itslef to the average tendency.