Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.

Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.

No one ever became great by imitation.

Sir, sorrow is inherent in humanity. As you cannot judge two and two to be either five, or three, but certainly four, so, when comparing a worse present state with a better which is past, you cannot but feel sorrow. It is not cured by reason, but by the incursion of present objects, which bear out the past.

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world.

When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.