What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.

Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar.

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.

Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.