So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.

Little things are great to little men.

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

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment.

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