Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . .

This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea, that very thing, happiness, which I have been pursuing all my life, and have never yet overtaken.

The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things.

To make the cunning artless, tame the rude, subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted soul; yea, put a bridle in the lion's mouth, and lead him forth as a domestic cur,--these are the triumphs of all-powerful beauty.

O mysterious Night! thou art not silent; many tongues halt thou.