In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty.

Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive; for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities; as false coins have often lustre, though they want weight.

Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.

Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.

Celestial wisdom calms the mind.