True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.

Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.

He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.

We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.

There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with gloomy reserve. This is the most dangerous state of mind; accidents or friendships may lessen the louder kinds of grief, but all remedies for this must be had from within, and there despair too often finds the most deadly enemy.