If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.

If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.

Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.