The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain.

Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.

No man was ever great by imitation.

Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.

An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.