We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.

It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.

Character is very much a matter of health.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.