People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

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.

Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.

The sports of children satisfy the child.

Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.

The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.