It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will be allowed by those who wish to elevate the character of a scholar; since they cannot but know that every human acquisition is valuable in proportion to the difficulty of its attainment.

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom

When a poet mentions the spring, we know that the zephyrs are about to whisper, that the groves are to recover their verdure, the linnets to warble forth their notes of love, and the flocks and herds to frisk over vales painted with flowers: yet, who is there so insensible of the beauties of nature, so little delighted with the renovation of the world, as not to feel his heart bound at the mention of the spring?

Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.