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

One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started into discourse; but, instead of this we find that conversation is never so much straightened and confined, as in numerous assemblies.

Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.

He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.