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.

A great mind must be androgynous.

There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!