Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.

Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.

From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.

Were a man's sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life, it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.

All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

Love is a second life.

Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant.