Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.

The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.

Pure motives do not insure perfect results.

Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.