What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy.
When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
Great necessities call out great virtues.
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure, some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.