Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time in the calm amusement of contriving what they never attempt or hope to execute.

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.

"Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived in the gloom of a sick chamber, where it will be vain to expect entertainment from the gay, or instruction from the wise; where all human glory is obliterated, the wit is clouded, the reasoner perplexed, and the hero subdued; where the highest and brightest of mortal beings finds nothing left him but the consciousness of innocence.