Religion, like its votaries, while it exists on earth, must have a body as well as a soul. A religion purely spiritual might suit a being as pure, but men are compound animals; and the body too often lords it over the mind.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

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.

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

No improvement that takes place in either sex can possibly be confined to itself. Each is a universal mirror to each, and the respective refinement of the one will always be in reciprocal proportion to the polish of the other.

Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude