Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms together, and you have St. Paul's Church. So it is with human felicity, which is made up of many ingredients, each of which may be shown to be very insignificant.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

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.

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.

It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.