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

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

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

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.

Nothing is so firmly than that which is least known.

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

The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn.