Any one who is much talked of be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate than to appreciate, you will acknowledge that there is some truth in the saying.

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.

What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

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

It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.

People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.