It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy.

Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.

Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.

Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices, it is of both genders; yet, because wounded vanity and slighted love are the two most powerful excitements to revenge, it has been thought, perhaps, to rage with more violence in the female heart.

In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible.

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.