The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
Mercy often inflicts death.
He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.
...nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.