To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.

Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.

The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.