Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.

Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.

Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.

Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.