Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb.
Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.
A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.
The ubiquity of the Divine presence is the only true support, and I am sometimes astonished how persons, who evidently do not possess that grand source of consolation, keep up their spirits under trials and difficulties. It must be owing to careless tempers and nerves of brass.
the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity.