We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.

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.

Justice is often pale and melancholy; but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.

We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.

He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. The most sparkling and pointed flame of wit flickers and expires against the incombustible walls of her sanctuary.