When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance
A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.
The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.
We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us.
To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.