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.

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution.

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.

Suspicion is most often useless pain.

There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are