There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want to borrow his money; while, among the less favored with fortune's gifts, the sincere friend is generally esteemed to be the individual who is ready to lend it.

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.