A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.

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

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.

Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.

True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.