A hug is worth a thousand words.

That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan himself were to write a book it would be in praise of virtue, because the good would purchase it for use, and the bad for ostentation.

If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.

Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.

Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.