And learn the luxury of doing good.

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

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.

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.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.