By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.
The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection.
A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.
Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.
Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy