Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful.

Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

Justice, not the majority, should rule.

It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a matter of general conviction, but it is not so with what he utters in the freedom of conversation. In that he may only express the feeling of the moment, and not his settled judgment, or matured opinion.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple is eaten, but "the core sticks in the throat." Expectation has then given way to ennui, appetite to satiety.