Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.
When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.
The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an individual weight of calumny will be super-added.
In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised.