When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for few are formed with abilities to discover new possibilities of excellence, and to distinguish themselves by means never tried before.

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.

The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her.

The first step to greatness is to be honest.