Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.

If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.

Philosophers have widely differed as to the seat of the soul, and St. Paul has told us that out of the heart proceed murmurings; but there can be no doubt that the seat of perfect contentment is in the head, for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.