The synonyme of usury is ruin.

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.

So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.

Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant

To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the first summons; but such happiness, the greatest genius does not always obtain; and common writers know it only to such a degree, as to credit its possibility. Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.