Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.

A court of heraldry sprung up to supply the place of crusade exploits, to grant imaginary shields and trophies to families that never wore real armor, and it is but of late that it has been discovered to have no real jurisdiction.

Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?

A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.