Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for each other's thoughts.

Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.

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.

Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.