And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

The majority of a society is the true definition of the public.

It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.

We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.

A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.