Apologies are seldom of any use.

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed

Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.