Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.

I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.

In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had

There may be other reasons for a man's not speaking in publick than want of resolution: he may have nothing to say.

Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells.

I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.