How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.

Remorse begets reform.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.