Instability Of Temper Ought To Be Checked

Though We Seem Grieved At The Shortness Of Life In General, We Are Wishing Every Period Of It At An End. The Minor Longs To Be At Age, Then To Be A Man Of Business, Then To Make Up An Estate, Then To Arrive At Honors, Then To Retire.

The Productions Of A Great Genius, With Many Lapses And Inadvertences, Are Infinitely Preferable To The Works Of An Inferior Kind Of Author Which Are Scrupulously Exact, And Conformable To All The Rules Of Correct Writing.

Eternity! Thou Pleasing, Dreadful Thought.

We Are Always Doing Something For Posterity, But I Would Fain See Posterity Do Something For Us.

Nature Does Nothing Without Purpose Or Uselessly.