Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.

Truth, such as is necessary to the reputation of life, is always found where it is honestly sought.

There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.