Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

In this work are exhibited, in a very high degree, the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.