This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

Those who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it was the Work of a Being transcendently Wise and Powerful. As the World grew more enlightened in this Art, their Discoveries gave them fresh Opportunities of admiring the Conduct of Providence in the Formation of an Human Body.

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.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.