Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.

Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.

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.

It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.

Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death; a position which, however it may defect the happy, will seldom afford much comfort to the wretched.