Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.

Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor.

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

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

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

I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality.