Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

Pity is like eating mustard without beef.

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.