Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.