Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.

A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.

Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.

A piece of simple goodness--a letter gushing from the heart; a beautiful unstudied vindication of the worth and untiring sweetness of human nature--a record of the invulnerability of man, armed with high purpose, sanctified by truth.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.