Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.

Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

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

The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture.

It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the nicest judgment always distinguish accidental similitude from artful imitation.

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.