The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.

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.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,- A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.

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

Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.