Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

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.

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.

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.

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.