The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

Mystery is not profoundness.

The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.