Life is a journey that must be travelled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations. |
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. |
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. |
Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. |
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law. |
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! |
Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies. |