It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.

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.

To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar

It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.

False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken by the sun, will be pleased to see a fainter orb arise on the horizon, that may rescue him from total darkness, though with weak and borrowed lustre.

Truth allows no choice.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.