His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.

No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.

Success is a fruit of slow growth.

A good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself which the neglect of legislators had forgotten to supply.

There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.