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

The heart contracts as the pocket expands.

Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.

Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.