Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.

None are happy but by anticipation of change.

Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little