Languages are the pedigree of nations.

Reason elevates our thoughts as high as the stars, and leads us through the vast space of this mighty fabric; yet it comes far short of the real extent of our corporeal being.

The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.

Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images; and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to other things.

The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.