There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.

It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.

"Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour.

Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disciplined by an easy separation...to die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.