Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.

Bright was the summer of 1296. The war which had desolated Scotland was then at an end.

We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract of sympathy, mutual forbearance, and respect!

When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.

In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles.

Life is a warfare; and he who easily desponds deserts a double duty--he betrays the noblest property of man, which is dauntless resolution; and he rejects the providence of that All-Gracious Being who guides and rules the universe.

Lachrymal counsellors, with one foot in the cave of despair, and the other invading the peace of their friends, are the paralyzers of action, the pests of society, and the subtlest homicides in the world; they poison with a tear; and convey a dagger to the heart while they press you to their bosoms.