Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

Life only avails, not the having lived.

And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew Upon the tablets blue The dancing Pleiads, and the eternal men.