Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.

Argument should be polite as well as logical.

Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.

History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.

It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

The death of a man's wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion. Henceforth the glare of the world, with its cares and vicissitudes falls upon the old widower's heart, and there is nothing to break their force, or shield him from the full weight of misfortune. It is as if his right hand were withered; as if one wing of his angel was broken, and every movement that he made brought him to the ground.