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

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

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

The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.

If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to follow that men of weak imaginations are the reverse; in which case we should have some compensation for stupidity. But it unfortunately happens that no dogmatist is more obstinate or less open to conviction than a fool.

A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.