When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.

The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.

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.