Love is full of imagination..

The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hol….

We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract of sympathy, mutua….

However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet on the mind..

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teac….

That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart..

The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes..

we never know the blessings bestowed on us until we are separated from the possession of them..

Life is a warfare; and he who easily desponds deserts a double duty--he betrays the noblest property of man, which is dauntless resolution; and he re….

Lachrymal counsellors, with one foot in the cave of despair, and the other invading the peace of their friends, are the paralyzers of action, the pes….

none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it..

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared..

People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed The ….

True virtue, when she errs, needs not the eyes of men to excite her blushes; she is confounded at her own presence, and covered with confusion of fac….

Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon..