Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.

A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.

The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends its effects wider, as a pestilence that taints the air is more destructive than poison infused in a draught, but because it is committed with cool deliberation.

I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.