A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn.

My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence.

Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.