Examples are few of men ruined by giving.

God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in nature, goodness so abounds that we are authorized to infer that it does not stop even at the grave. It is only that her footprints have become invisible.

The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

Out of politics comes more uproar than progress. It is indeed surprising how little, comparatively, this noisy department of human affairs contributes to the world's prosperity. Political commotions upon the grandest scale, political events of astounding suddenness, political characters of the greatest ability, abound, but still, permanent results are rare, and we look in vain for a measure of public good corresponding in extent to the hideous rout which ushers it in. Progress but turns upon its pillow, and goes to sleep again.

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

It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.