Classical Quotation Is The Parole Of Literary

If Misery Be The Effect Of Virtue, It Ought To Be Reverenced; If Of Ill-fortune, To Be Pitied; And If Of Vice, Not To Be Insulted, Because It Is Perhaps Itself A Punishment Adequate To The Crime By Which It Was Produced.

Hope Itself Is A Species Of Happiness, And, Perhaps, The Chief Happiness Which This World Affords; But, Like All Other Pleasures Immoderately Enjoyed, The Excesses Of Hope Must Be Expiated By Pain.

Being In A Ship Is Being In A Jail, With The Chance Of Being Drowned.

To A People Warlike And Indigent, An Incursion Into A Rich Country Is Never Hurtful.

Good Breeding Consists In Having No Particular Mark Of Any Profession, But A General Elegance Of Manners.