Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

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

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.

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.

There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.