No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.

Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.

Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.

I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.