Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.
Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.
No young man ever thinks he shall die.
There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.
It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.
Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.