Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

In this work are exhibited, in a very high degree, the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets