There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with gloomy reserve. This is the most dangerous state of mind; accidents or friendships may lessen the louder kinds of grief, but all remedies for this must be had from within, and there despair too often finds the most deadly enemy.

Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.

There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.