An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act.

He will always see the most beauty whose affections are the warmest and most exercised, whose imagination is the most powerful, and who has most accustomed himself to attend to the objects by which he is surrounded.

Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.

An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act.

Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.