His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.

I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they were rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves and of one another.

Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.

The process is the reality.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.

I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.