We ask advice but we mean approbation.

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

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

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them,--for every one, sees how we dress, but none see how we live, except we choose to let them. But the truly great are, by universal suffrage, exempted from these trammels, an may live or dress as they please.

Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.

Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.