Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.

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

Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.

There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.

The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

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

In its primary signification, all vice, that is, all excess, brings on its own punishment, even here. By certain fixed, settled and established laws of Him who is the God of nature, excess of every kind destroys that constitution which temperance would preserve. The debauchee offers up his body a "living sacrifice to sin.