It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.

The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good.