Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.

Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labor under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him.

There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in.

Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.