He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason.

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.

The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply.

Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.