Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.

A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from the source of light, with something of its universal lustre in it. If childhood be this, how holy the duty to see that in its onward growth it shall be no other!

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

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.

It takes all sorts of people to make a world.

Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.