Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

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

It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world.

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?

Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits; the other recreates and revives them.

Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.