Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not it were better that nothing should be.

No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.

We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of his deceiver; the wise man is silent, and denies that triumph to an enemy which he would hardly concede to a friend; a triumph that proclaims his own defeat.

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.