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.

Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.

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

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

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.

Consult duty not events.

We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.