To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone.

Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.

Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.

Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladder at its fullest distention is still empty.

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

He who cannot find time to consult his Bible will one day find he has time to be sick; he who has no time to pray must find time to die; he who can find no time to reflect is most likely to find time to sin; he who cannot find time for repentance will find an eternity in which repentance will be of no avail; he who cannot find time to work for others may find an eternity in which to suffer for himself.

The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.