There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.

A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.

Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions fortuitous, destroy the value of their friendship, obstruct the efficacy of their virtues, and set them below the meanest of those who persist in their resolutions, execute what they design, and perform what they have promised.

Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.