Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.

Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.