Imitation cannot go above its model.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

Language is fossil Poetry.

Wise men are not wise at all times.

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.

There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.