The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner.

It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow.

When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.

When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best.