There are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves.

How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.