Misery And Shame Are Nearly Allied.

For Sorrow There Is No Remedy Provided By Nature; It Is Often Occasioned By Accidents Irreparable, And Dwells Upon Objects That Have Lost Or Changed Their Existence; It Requires What It Cannot Hope, That The Laws Of The Universe Should Be Repealed; That The Dead Should Return, Or The Past Should Be Recalled.

A Family ... Is A Little Kingdom, Torn With Factions And Exposed To Revolutions.

Life Must Be Filled Up, And The Man Who Is Not Capable Of Intellectual Pleasures Must Content Himself With Such As His Senses Can Afford.

All Censure Of A Man's Self Is Oblique Praise. It Is In Order To Show How Much He Can Spare.

They Who Most Loudly Clamour For Liberty Do Not Most Liberally Grant It.