And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

And plenty makes us poor.

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

All heiresses are beautiful.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.

Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.

Even victors are by victories undone.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

God never made His work for man to mend.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Honor is but an empty bubble.

If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.