Black detraction will find faults where they are not.

We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.

I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses.

Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused; or, if received, are pocketed, not read.

Revenge, that thirsty dropsy of our souls, makes us covet that which hurts us most.