When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to s different species.