Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

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

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.

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.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.