Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution

For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others forever, and thus’ himself might deserve some decent degree of honors of his cotemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them

There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.