The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.

A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius.

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

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.