And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

Crime generally punishes itself.

Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?