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

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.

Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger; but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one

That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.

Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.

Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.