The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.

I hate the man who eats without knowing what he’s eating. I doubt his taste in more important things.

O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.