All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.

Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God.

If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs a chimney-sweeper, who has no objection to dirty work, because it is his trade.

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only to the mischief they wrought.

As there are some faults that have been termed faults on the right side, so there are some errors that might be denominated errors on the safe side. Thus we seldom regret having been too mild, too cautious, or too humble; but we often repent having been too violent, too precipitate, or too proud.