We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.
A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.
The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.