Our aspirations are our possibilities.

There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame.

A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight.

A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.

If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.