The plainest man that can convince a woman that he is really in love with her has done more to make her in love with him than the handsomest man, if he can produce no such conviction. For the love of woman is a shoot, not a seed, and flourishes most vigorously only when ingrafted on that love which is rooted in the breast of another.

It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility

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

We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.

Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.