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.

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.

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.

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

Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!

Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .