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

There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

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.

But for that blindness which is inseparable from malice, what terrible powers of evil would it possess! Fortunately for the world, its venom, like that of the rattlesnake, when most poisonous, clouds the eye of the reptile, and defeats its aim.

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