Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves.

We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.

Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything.