The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to anticipate triumphs, it is weakness and cowardice to prog-nosticate miscarriages.

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.

People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.