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.

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

The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.

Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns, And as the portal opens to receive me, A voice in hollow murmurs through the courts Tells of a nameless deed.

What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.

I wish that all those, who on this night are not merry enough to speak before they think, may ever after be grave enough to think before they speak!

Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm.