The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

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