The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.

Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.

Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.

True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.