Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

Love can be founded upon Nature only.

People can commend the weather without envy.

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.