Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.

Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything.

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

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.