“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius
“Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttle fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him, till he becomes invisible
“The important question is not what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount
“To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement
“Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves
“Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object
“Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed
“Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity
“Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies
“Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity
“No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority