Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.

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

Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before, we see pleasures which we languish to possess, and are consequently uneasy till we possess them.

The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.