Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

All the bloomy flush of life is fled.

There is probably no country so barbarous that would not disclose all it knew, if it received equivalent information; and I am apt to think that a person who was ready to give more knowledge than he received would be welcome wherever he came.