The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Social sorrow loses half its pain.

It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.

One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.