If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

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

Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.