Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.

When the air balloon was first discovered, some one flippantly asked Dr. Franklin what was the use of it. The doctor answered this question by asking another: "What is the use of a new-born infant? It may become a man."

Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.

We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.

Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.

A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good.