The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.
As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.
The resolution of the combat is seldom equal to the vehemence of the charge.
Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.
Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions