Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.

A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for succor; on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies; from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of--disappointment.

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

A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.

As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.