If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?

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

Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.

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

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.