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

Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.

Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.

The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.

Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.

Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.