The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.

Names govern the world.

when these incorrigible talkers are compelled to be quiet, is it not evident that they are not silent because they are listening to what is said, but because they are thinking of what they themselves shall say when they can seize the first lucky interval, for which they are so narrowly watching?

Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.

Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!

We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.

The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.