The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance.

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.