Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.
That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.
What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!
A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.
I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb.
Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.