An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

Admiration is a very short lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!

Much might be said on both sides.

The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured.

Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death!

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

I think the Romans call it Stoicism.

The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.