Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Squeamish stomachs cannot eat without pickles.
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the French say, tant gagne, so much added to the pleasure of life.
Nothing preaches better than the act.
To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.