Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.

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

Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers; but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.

Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.

The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.