Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven.

In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.