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.

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

As many suffer from too much as too little.

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

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.