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

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

Love is full of imagination.

The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy.

It has been wisely said, "that well may thy guardian angel suffer thee to lose thy locks, when thou darest wilfully to lay thy head in the lap of temptation!" Was it not easier for the hero of Judaea to avoid the touch of the fair Philistine, than to elude her power when held in her arms?

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

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