I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.

A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.

The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection.

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.