Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.

Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

What a type of happy family is the family of the Sun! With what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace, do his children the planets move around him, shining with light which they drink in from their parent's in at once upon him and on one another!

They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.

Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.

Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.