It is delightful to kiss the eyelashes of the beloved--is it not? But never so delightful as when fresh tears are on them.

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.

Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.

Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger; but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.

Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.