The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.

Opinion has ever been stronger than law.

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.

Talk without truth is the hollow brass; talk without love is like the tinkling cymbal, and when it does not tinkle it jingles, and when it does not jingle, it jars.

Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her nature; and if there be love on his side, the chances are that in the end she will elevate and refine him.