There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.

It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.