That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

Were a man's sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life, it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.

Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.