Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.
Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.
Peevishness may be considered the canker of life, that destroys its vigor and checks its improvement; that creeps on with hourly depredations, and taints and vitiates what it cannot consume.
We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful.