Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.

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

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.

Look what a little vain dust we are!

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?