None are happy but by anticipation of change.

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.