The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.

A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.

If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.