That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.

The plainest man that can convince a woman that he is really in love with her has done more to make her in love with him than the handsomest man, if he can produce no such conviction. For the love of woman is a shoot, not a seed, and flourishes most vigorously only when ingrafted on that love which is rooted in the breast of another.

We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.

Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.