The enemy is too mighty and too merciless for me; he will not give me time so much as to breathe.

These things are not yet at least in our power: they are parts of a great series that is perpetually flowing.

The general welfare, the great business of the universe, will go on, though I bear no further share in promoting it.
That task is reserved for younger strengths, for you, Falkland, and such as you.

We should be contemptible indeed if the prospect of human improvement did not yield us a pure and perfect delight, independently of the question of our existing to partake of it.

Mankind would have little to envy to future ages, if they had all enjoyed a serenity as perfect as mine has been for the latter half of my existence." Mr.Clare sat up through the whole day, indulging himself in easy and cheerful exertions, which were perhaps better calculated to refresh and invigorate the frame, than if he had sought repose in its direct form.
Now and then he was visited with a sudden pang; but it was no sooner felt, than he seemed to rise above it, and smiled at the impotence of these attacks.