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.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.

The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.

The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.

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?

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.