The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.

Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind.

And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!

It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger.