And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.

A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.

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

Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.

Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.