The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

Ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of transgressions.

Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every tongue that mentions his name to be proclaiming them.

A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world.