At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.

The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.

Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

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

It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.

The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.