Our Pleasures Are Short, And Can Only

Modesty Seldom Resides In A Breast That Is Not Enriched With Nobler Virtues.

I Always Get The Better When I Argue Alone.

I Love Everything That's Old, - Old Friends, Old Times, Old Manners, Old Books, Old Wine.

Alas! The Joys That Fortune Brings Are Trifling, And Decay, And Those Who Prize The Trifling Things, More Trifling Still Than They.

It Is Impossible To Combat Enthusiasm With Reason; For Though It Makes A Show Of Resistance, It Soon Eludes The Pressure, Refers You To Distinctions Not To Be Understood, And Feelings Which It Cannot Explain. A Man Who Would Endeavor To Fix An Enthusiast By Argument Might As Well Attempt To Spread Quicksilver With His Finger.