Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.

It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

I should not like to preach to a congregation who all believed as I believe. I would as lief preach to a basket of eggs in their smooth compactness and oval formality.

The mere leader of fashion has no genuine claim to supremacy; at least, no abiding assurance of it. He has embroidered his title upon his waistcoat, and carries his worth in his watch chain; and, if he is allowed any real precedence for this it is almost a moral swindle,--a way of obtaining goods under false pretences.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.