Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.

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

To be prejudiced is always to be weak

To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.

Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.