The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.

Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.

The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

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.

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.