Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.

The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.

It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy.

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.

No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them,--for every one, sees how we dress, but none see how we live, except we choose to let them. But the truly great are, by universal suffrage, exempted from these trammels, an may live or dress as they please.