It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.

Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.

He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.

No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.