Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

In a well-written book we are presented with the maturest reflections, or the happiest flights of a mind of uncommon excellence. It is impossible that we can be much accustomed to such companions without attaining some resemblance to them.

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.