The triumph of hope over experience.

Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.

John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do.

A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.