Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.

It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.

To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of a little mind; but it requires a soul of no common stamp to be satisfied with its own acquittal, and to despise the condemnation of the world.