Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.

When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

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

Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction: memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls, cannot be rekindled.