Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.

This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.

Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as he is to the infirmities of a man, yet suffering the tortures of a demon, and bearing them with the magnanimity of a God, do we not behold a heroism that angels may indeed surpass, but which they cannot imitate, and must admire.