Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

Domestic discord is not inevitably and fatally necessary; but yet it is not easy to avoid.

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.

Indolence is the devil's cushion.

Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.