There is not on earth a spectacle more worthy the regard of a Creator intent on his works, than a brave man superior to his sufferings.

T is the Divinity that stirs within us.

An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.

Virtue which shuns, the day.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom they are applied; but in their descendants they are too often the marks rather of grandeur than of merit. The stamp and denomination still continue, but the intrinsic value is frequently lost.