Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

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.

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

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.