Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.

Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes; and they fall into harmonious arrangements, and delight him, often most mischievously and to his ultimate detriment; but they are a present pleasure.

An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.

Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.

The man who could withstand, with his fellow-men in single line, a charge of cavalry may lose all command of himself on the occurrence of a fire in his own house, because of some homely reminiscence unknown to the observing bystander.

Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.

Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers