Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the contrary, it is the mark of an amiable and a beneficent temper, to say all the kind things one can, without flattery or playing the hypocrite,--and what never fails of procuring the love and esteem of every one; which, next to doing good to a deserving object who wants it, is one of the greatest pleasures of this life.

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.