Our aspirations are our possibilities.
A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.
Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.
An exotic and irrational entertainment.