I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

A voyage to the moon, however romantick and absurd the scheme may now appear, since the properties of air have been better understood, seemed highly probable to many of the aspiring wits in the last century

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.