“No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather's weight lighter to the slave who must carry it.”

“Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.”

“I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.”

“Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.”

“Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.”

“Of all the train, none escaped except Wamba, who showed upon the occasion much more courage than those who pretended to greater sense.”

“Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.”