Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.

The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.

The worst evils are those that never arrive.

He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.

A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company