Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.

I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.

He watched and wept and prayed and felt for all

All the bloomy flush of life is fled.

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

Crimes generally punish themselves.