No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.
The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.
The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
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.