I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.

We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can; but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.

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

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.

No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.

Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.