Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.

Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor.

The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it; so is that of the other, because he distinguishes every moment of it with useful or amusing thoughts--or, in other words, because the one is always wishing it away, and the other always enjoying it.

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

Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.