Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but theyare starving in the midst of its abundance: the whole wilderness has blossomed into a garden; but they feel as reptiles that infest it.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

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

The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.

There is a majestic grandeur in tranquillity.

Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it