Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.

Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy

Inquiries into the heart are not for man.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

The first step to greatness is to be honest.

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.