We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.

Virtue is presupposed in friendship.

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration.

Consult duty not events.

The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.