The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.

Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or home that is filled with ashes.

Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.

Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.

Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures.

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.