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.

The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.

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.

Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.

The heart contracts as the pocket expands.

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.