In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Remorse weeps tears of blood.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.