Suspicion is most often useless pain.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.