In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

Frugality is a handsome income.

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.

Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.