Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.

Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.

I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?