In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.

There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.

I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.

All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.