Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.

The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market.

The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave

No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.

We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are fit only to engender colic and wind; but if rich, generous and sparkling, they communicate a genial glow to the spirits, improve the taste, and expand the heart.