By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution.

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.

No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.

There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.

How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.