A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong, and when the World is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer?

It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls.

Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year.

[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.