Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.

Luncheon: as much food as one's hand can hold.

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.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

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

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.