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

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.

Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.