Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded; for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadsul than its extinction.

Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

The king who makes war on his enemies tenderly distresses his subjects most cruelly.

Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Sir, when you have seen one green field, you have seen all green fields. Let us walk down Cheapside.

To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any guilt to alienate affection, must surely awaken tenderness in every human mind; and tenderness once excited will be hourly increased by the natural contagion of felicity, by the repercussion of communicated pleasure, by the consciousness of dignity of benefaction.