A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.

Pray consider what a figure a man would make in the republic of letters.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman

A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible force, which for want of sight is of no use to him