The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.

Virtue is despotic; life, reputation, every earthly good, must be surrendered at her voice. The law may seem hard, but it is the guardian of what it commands; and is the only sure defence of happiness.

Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.

Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.

How different is the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity.

National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.

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.