When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.

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

Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach and expound the mysteries of man and the universe. They teach us to understand and feel what we see, to decipher and syllable the hieroglyphics of the senses.

Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.

We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.