Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind. If we consider the inlets of pleasure from five senses only, we may be sure that the same Being who created us could have given us five hundred, if He had pleased.

The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes

He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well.

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.