The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.

Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie.

Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.

We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors.

Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look bright from below, every step we rise shows us some new and gloomy prospect of hidden disappointment; so in our descent from the summits of pleasure, though the vale of misery below may appear, at first, dark and gloomy, yet the busy mind, still attentive to its own amusement, finds, as we descend, something to flatter and to please. Still as we approach, the darkest objects appear to brighten, and the mortal eye becomes adapted to its gloomy situation.