A Ship Is Worse Than A Gaol.

Perhaps Man Is The Only Being That Can Properly Be Called Idle.

Life, However Short, Is Made Still Shorter By Waste Of Time.

It Is Almost Always The Unhappiness Of A Victorious Disputant To Destroy His Own Authority By Claiming Too Many Consequences, Or Diffusing His Proposition To An Indefensible Extent.

Except During The Nine Months Before He Draws His First Breath, No Man Manages His Affairs As Well As A Tree. We Are Inclined To Believe Those Whom We Do Not Know Because They Have Never Deceived Us.

The Business Of A Poet Is To Examine Not The Individual But The Species; To Remark General Properties And Large Appearances.