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.

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

The plainest case in many words entangling.

He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for other's good, is a poor, frozen churl.

Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.

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

A good man's prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heaven's height, and bring a blessing down.