A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.

A fool and a wise man are alike both in the starting-place--their birth, and at the post--their death; only they differ in the race of their lives.

Grim-visaged, comfortless despair.

He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings is, that nature disapproves it; otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass in place of a lion

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.