The heart contracts as the pocket expands.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.

There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?

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