It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.

A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.