Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

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

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.