Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Courage is like the diamond,--very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard bodies useless.

Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind. If we consider the inlets of pleasure from five senses only, we may be sure that the same Being who created us could have given us five hundred, if He had pleased.

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

As there are some faults that have been termed faults on the right side, so there are some errors that might be denominated errors on the safe side. Thus we seldom regret having been too mild, too cautious, or too humble; but we often repent having been too violent, too precipitate, or too proud.