Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.

When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.

Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, -it steals away the freshness of life, -it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments, -it shuts our souls to our own youth, -and we are old ere we remember that we have made a fever and a labor of our raciest years.

The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment.

In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food.

Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily things of existence; our feelings teach us to yearn after the far, the difficult, the unseen.