The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honour, false glory, and false r…

Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all Tom Jones.

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

This is how we go on: one day a time, one meal at a time, one pain at a time, one breath at a time. Dentists go on one root canal at a time; boat builders go o…

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.