When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.

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.

The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.

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

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

Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.