Great Men Never Require Experience.

Customs May Not Be As Wise As Laws, But They Are Always More Popular.

Man Is Made To Adore And To Obey: But If You Will Not Command Him, If You Give Him Nothing To Worship, He Will Fashion His Own Divinities, And Find A Chieftain In His Own Passions.

Taste, When Once Obtained, May Be Said To Be No Acquiring Faculty, And Must Remain Stationary; But Knowledge Is Of Perpetual Growth And Has Infinite Demands. Taste, Like An Artificial Canal, Winds Through A Beautiful Country, But Its Borders Are Confined And Its Term Is Limited. Knowledge Navigates The Ocean, And Is Perpetually On Voyages Of Discovery.

The Art Of Conversation Is To Be Prompt Without Being Stubborn, To Refute Without Argument, And To Clothe Great Matters In A Motley Garb.

You Will Find As You Grow Older That Courage Is The Rarest Of All Qualities To Be Found In Public Life.