Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found.

Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for each other's thoughts.

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

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.

Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful.

Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.