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

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.

By anticipation we sugar misery and enjoy happiness before they are in being. We can set the sun and stars forward, or lose sight of them by wandering into those retired parts of eternity when the heavens and earth shall be no more.

There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle of words, and is comprehended under the general name of punning.

Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.

Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies.

How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created?