He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.

It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.

We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established, and it is understood.

If once a woman breaks through the barriers of decency, her ease is desperate; and if she goes greater lengths than the men, and leaves the pale of propriety farther behind her, it is because she is aware that all return is prohibited, and by none so strongly as by her own sex.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.