Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.

It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.

The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.

Treason seldom dwells with courage.