There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear.

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.

Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.