Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?

Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.

He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.

The night is past,-joy cometh with the morrow.