A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.

We often need reminding even if we do not often need educating.

So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms together, and you have St. Paul's Church. So it is with human felicity, which is made up of many ingredients, each of which may be shown to be very insignificant.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

The dangers gather as the treasures rise.

Virtue is too often merely local.