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

I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.

Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.

If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius; and Fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe, inactive, pale, and bloated.

Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.

Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed; but neither genius nor glory, is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout.

Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.