Jesters do often prove prophets.

My heart leaps at the trumpet's voice.

Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant.

A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.