We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.

Good humor is the sunshine of the mind.

When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.

He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.