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.

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.

A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.

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

No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.