How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
Innocence is always unsuspicious.
When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.
The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.
I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!
Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!