Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Example has far more followers than reason.

Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.