Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.

To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.

There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.