To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

A hug is worth a thousand words.

Courage is like the diamond,--very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard bodies useless.

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.