There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.

By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child.

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.

There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with gloomy reserve. This is the most dangerous state of mind; accidents or friendships may lessen the louder kinds of grief, but all remedies for this must be had from within, and there despair too often finds the most deadly enemy.

The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.

All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.