The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressu...
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
A man's vanity tells him what is honour a man's conscience what is justice.
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
States like men have their growth their manhood their decrepitude their decay.
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
We talk on principle but we act on interest.
What is reading but silent conversation?
In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.
Delay of justice is injustice.
Men like snails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
We cannot conquer fate and necessity yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken,Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.