Hunger is never delicate.

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.

It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.

Sir, sorrow is inherent in humanity. As you cannot judge two and two to be either five, or three, but certainly four, so, when comparing a worse present state with a better which is past, you cannot but feel sorrow. It is not cured by reason, but by the incursion of present objects, which bear out the past.

The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.

Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.

The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some themselves; the mutability of mankind will always furnish writers with new images, and the luxuriance of fancy may always embellish them with new decorations.