The sports of children satisfy the child.
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.
Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.
O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for succor; on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies; from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of--disappointment.