It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence.
We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.
Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.
Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.
The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?