Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

Few minds wear out; more rust out.

The heart contracts as the pocket expands.