He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less.

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.

We shall at all times chance upon men of recondite acquirements, but whose qualifications, from the incommunicative and inactive habits of their owners, are as utterly useless to others as though the possessors had them not.

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.

It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.