We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

He watched and wept and prayed and felt for all

As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.

I learn several great truths; as that it is impossible to see into the ways of futurity, that punishment always attends the villain, that love is the fond soother of the human breast.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.