The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

There are some works which the authors must consign unpublished to posterity, however uncertain be the event, however hopeless be the trust. He that writes the history of his own times, if he adhere steadily to truth, will write that which his own times will not easily endure. He must be content to reposite his book till all private passions shall cease, and love and hatred give way to curiosity.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

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

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

Beauty, without kindness, dies unenjoyed and undelighting.

It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.