Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.

The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.

The best hearts are ever the bravest.

When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in--woe be to truth!

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition, as a state of warfare; and his probation in it, precisely that of any other man militant upon earth,--both depending alike, not half so much upon the degrees of his WIT--as his RESISTANCE.

How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)--and consider'd asnothing but common air, in competition of an hypothesis.