Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

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

An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.