Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.
The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.
He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.