It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

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

The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew it.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.

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