The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

A good horse makes short miles.

Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.