The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.

Preserve me from unseasonable and immoderate sleep.

About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.

Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.

The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation.