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

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.

Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!

A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.

Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look bright from below, every step we rise shows us some new and gloomy prospect of hidden disappointment; so in our descent from the summits of pleasure, though the vale of misery below may appear, at first, dark and gloomy, yet the busy mind, still attentive to its own amusement, finds, as we descend, something to flatter and to please. Still as we approach, the darkest objects appear to brighten, and the mortal eye becomes adapted to its gloomy situation.