Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest.

Security will produce danger.

He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

I do not see, Sir, that it is reasonable for a man to be angry at another, whom a woman has preferred to him; but angry he is, no doubt; and he is loath to be angry at himself.

Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise.

We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us.