The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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 talk on principle but we act on interest.
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
What is reading but silent conversation?
A man's vanity tells him what is honour a man's conscience what is justice.
Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
Delay of justice is injustice.
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.
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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.
No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken,Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
Men like snails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.