Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.

There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut

Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.

Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?