As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way, the biographer is of great utility, as, by communicating such valuable patterns to the world, he may perhaps do a more extensive service to mankind than the person whose life originally afforded the pattern.

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bills of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all other diseases, namely, that no physicians can cure it.