Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.

Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep.

Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.

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

It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: "No room for your ladyship; pass on.

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.