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

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed desire of improvement, will grow more knowing.

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.

Fear naturally quickens the flight of guilt.

Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.