Mutability Is Written Upon All Things.

The Despotism Of Will In Ideas Is Styled Plan, Project, Character, Obstinacy; Its Despotism In Desires Is Called Passion.

Very Nice Couplet, Although There Are Dull Stretches.

Silence Never Yet Betrayed Any One!

The Most Civilized People Are As Near To Barbarism As The Most Polished Steel Is To Rust. Nations, Like Metals, Have Only A Superficial Brilliancy.

Reason Is An Historian, But The Passions Are Actors.