It Takes Talent To Please The People

Cunning Is None Of The Best Nor Worst Qualities; It Floats Between Virtue And Vice; There Is Scarce Any Exigence Where It May Not, And Perhaps Ought Not To Be Supplied By Prudence.

If It Be True That A Man Is Rich Who Wants Nothing, A Wise Man Is A Very Rich Man.

Two Quite Opposite Qualities Equally Bias Our Minds - Habits And Novelty.

Young People Are Dazzled By The Brilliancy Of Antithesis, And Employ It. Matter-of-fact Men, And Those Who Like Precision, Naturally Fall Into Comparisons And Metaphor. Sprightly Natures, Full Of Fire, And Whom A Boundless Imagination Carries Beyond All Rules, And Even What Is Reasonable, Cannot Rest Satisfied Even With Hyperbole. As For The Sublime, It Is Only Great Geniuses And Those Of The Very Highest Order That Are Able To Rise To Its Height.

Every Hour In Itself, As It Respects Us In Particular, Is The Only One We Can Call Our Own.