Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections.

Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory in the vigour and luxuriance of her chance productions.

Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief.

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.