Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?

Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit to any rule, by which they may be exempted from the tyranny of caprice and of chance. They are glad to supply by external authority their own want of constancy and resolution, and court the government of others, when long experience has convinced them of their own inability to govern themselves.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.

In this work are exhibited, in a very high degree, the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.