Time knows not the weight of sleep or weariness, and night's deep darkness has no chain to bind his rushing pinion.

Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.

Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.