The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.

The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.

The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.

Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.

Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.

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