An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.

The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest.

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.

The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.

You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.